I only just got one about two years ago and don't see where all the fuss is coming from.

I hear people complain that they sell user info and invade your privacy. I don't have anything on my facebook that i wouldn't be willing to share with a total stranger. If you are sharing private information over something called the World Wide Web (particularly in places geared towards Social Networking), then you may be too ignorant to be left unsupervised. I never once went on the internet and shared something with the idea that it was meant to remain private; that's an oxymoron if you ask me. Facebook isn't doing anything that the rest of the web wasn't doing long before Facebook came along. If you think there is a such thing as privacy on the internet, you're being naive.

So why are so many ant-facebook? For individuals with a sense of self control its a convenient and useful tool for networking and staying in the know with family/associates without having to spend too much of your day trying to find a reason to text message/call dozens of people just to get an update on them. If there are those who allow themselves to become obsessed with using the site all day, then isn't that their problem and not Facebook's problem? Its not as if the absence of social networking sites would suddenly make these people more productive; they'd simply find something else to feel the gap.

The most hilarious part of it all are the deactivators. Those who deactivate their facebook because they can't stay off the site or because they are suddenly anti-facebook. Really? If you can't stay off the site then you may want to consider your issues run deeper than facebook.

I just don't get people's logic sometimes. We point the finger at everyone except the mirror in front of us and wonder why nothing changes except the excuses we make.

I think it's partly from how big it has become and how it has changed. Before it blew up, it was a site for young people to connect with people they don't see or communicate often. Now, it's for everyone and people don't like it's non-exclusivity. Everyone sees or finds about everything you do. Also add that it makes people look dumb for their bad pics, statuses, and/or actions, people don't like what Facebook can be used for. It's a great social connector I must admit.

I never really got into it even though I had it since highschool. Me worrying about the quantity of "friends" was not good for me mentally or hopelessly waiting for a crush to post on my wall hurt my mental psyche for a while.